last call for setting group with newgrp...
Will Partain <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:08:09 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.ark.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Folks, you will recall that there have been a few messages
here discussing how to get the right user-and-group on a
remote host when an ARK method requires that...
As it stands (and glossing over the details...), we do
something like
ssh remote sudo [-u nonroot] /bin/sh
if we need to be another user and
ssh remote /usr/bin/newgrp thegroup
if we need to be another group.
But we have found this newgrp thing to be subject to the
whims of various shells. So I propose we do the ssh thing
always, and do os.setgid('thegroup') to get to the group we
want. Death to newgrp.
Yell, or coming to a cvs repository near you...
Will